OMG, yes. You are my most favoritest person. EVER I've been wanting a fic where Lee didn't survive the surgery. (huggles ) W00T! Not because I hate Lee or anything, I love that kid, but I just wanted to think... "What would've happened?" And you wrote it so well! Thanks again!

Ne, Hinaku-sensei... you always manage to hand me my heart on a platter, and this one was no different. As is usual, I loved the way that you managed to convey such emotion and detail into so few words.

The way you expressed the relationship between Lee-san and Gai-sensei is amazing. The unbreakable tie between Teacher and pupil... you did an outstanding job.

Oh my gosh...this is so sad but so touching. The love between a teacher and his student. A son/father relationship they have is so strong yet they aren't even related to each other by blood. I'll be waiting for the next chapter.

omg this is so sad...however you did capture the greatest connection within a teacher and a pupil...it's a respect that many of us dont really find...its wonderful here in lee and gai's example and I hope you write more stories like this...its truly heartbreaking

Hinaku-chan, another great written fic where sorrow is tangled with happiness -you seems to capture this swirl of emotion in various forms and in the end (disregard the genre may say "tragedy") it always leaves me smiling.

As I read through you beautiful story this sentence sticks out particularly well to me. "He could no more mistake Lee for someone else as he could mistake his own reflection in the mirror." In my mind's eye it paints a picture of Gai standing under a cold dim door frame, just staring away. Time, it seems, is frozen.

Now I admit I have not read the manga that far ahead (lol, I suppose I can hardly call it ahead since there's already over 200 chapters out there :P) but the close knitted relationship between Gai and Lee always has a soft spot in my heart. It is absolutely admirable how you manage to capture Gai's comical character and give him agnst -through it all, he's still in character!

Although I may not be on topic now, but another thing that stood out to me is the rabbit. Forgive me for my limited Naruto knowledge (I restrain myself from reading ahead of our very slow tv broadcast) because my mind went "hm, Haku, are you there too?" lol, I can not help but consider all that I read when it contains so much thoughts in it!